URGUM and the GOO GOO BAH was shortlisted for the first ever ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE! (ages 7-14)

The Barbarians Are Back! The new series starts off with BORGON THE AXEBOY and the DANGEROUS BREAKFAST to be released in July 2014!

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He's so tough he thinks nothing of catching cannonballs in his mouth and putting cobras down his vest. But one day he returns home to find out that not only has his wife redecorated their cave and installed a toy-lett, she's also produced a ten year-old daughter. And as Urgum and his seven savage sons will find out, Molly is a barbarian babe with attitude... I wish I was a kid again because I would have loved this book. I can't remember there ever being books as side-splittingly, belly-wobblyingly, head-in-risk-of-falling-off funny as this when I wore short trousers. It's a gloriously wordy and irreverant, historicaly-innaccurate riot with Philip Reeve's illustrations expertly adding more laughing gas to the mix. What a great team Poskitt and Reeve are. John McLay - book consultant Becky Stradwick in THE BOOKSELLER 21/7/06

This is a fantastically unique story, drenched in humour. The characters are vibrant and strong, and compel the reader onwards to see what they will do next. It is one for the boys (and the Molly-like girls), and is a whole load of fun. Sarah Merrett, School Librarian Magazine - Spring 2007 WHERE did Kjartan Poskitt find Urgum's axe? Becky Stradwick in THE BOOKSELLER 15/6/07 Look out for URGUM... it's fun all the way. Greenock Telegraph - Dec 2006 A seriously funny book which will have mums and dads laughing along with the girls and boys... Chingford Guardian - Dec 2006 Watch the MM author Kjartan Poskitt introduce Urgum The Axeman at Meet The Author

URGUM IS BACK and this time he's ON FIRE!... URGUM AND THE SEAT OF FLAMES Urgum, Molly, Mungoid, Divina, Grizelda, the Gods and the Seven Savage sons are all back with gorilla/budgie creatures, flying hippos, a barbarian in a wedding dress, the Wandering Jungle and ... the Flaming Pants of Shumbitt! When a baby gets kidnapped by the underground Troggyls it's URGUM TO THE RESCUE! URGUM AND THE GOO GOO BAH Barbarians with lampshapes on their heads? Spooky Tunnels and the Forgotten Crater? Awesome baby gods and the cursed princess? Very smelly trousers and a Giant Peligantuan? They're all in here! Philip Reeve wearing Urgum's lampshade at Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2008!

Here are Kjartan and Philip launching URGUM AND THE GOOGOOBAH at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2008! Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve launch "Urgum The Axeman" at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2006.

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"Urgum The Axeman" appears by kind permission of   The Murderous Maths Organisation
WEBSITES:     Kjartan Poskitt   Philip Reeve
Other books by Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve: The Murderous Maths Books Isaac Newton and his Apple
The MAGIC and the HISTORY of PANTS

The Giant Peligantuan from Urgum and the Goo Goo Bah

Here's what they're laughing at in Germany! Translated by Vanessa Walder